The majority of emerging diseases in humans come from wildlife. However, wildlife biorepositories – which include wildlife DNA and other biological materials – are largely absent from global responses to emerging infectious diseases.
This gap limits our ability to identify disease origins and wildlife hosts, as well as environmental associations that may contribute to disease in humans. Our program is helping solve this issue. We bring together experts and their biological materials across the Americas in an effort to build cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Our meeting topics are contributed by members and range from benefits sharing, pathogen surveillance, permitting and biodiversity informatics.
We meet from 11 a.m. to noon Mountain Time every Wednesday.
Pour plus d'informations, envoyer un mail à l'équipe.
Jocelyne Colella, PhD
Professeur adjoint et conservateur des mammifères
Institut de la biodiversité de l'Université du Kansas (États-Unis)
Joseph Cook, Ph.D.
Professeur et conservateur des mammifères
Museum of Southwestern Biology, Université du Nouveau-Mexique (États-Unis)
Guillermo D'Elia, PhD
Faculté des sciences
Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, la Universidad Astral de Chile (Chili)
Maria Laura Martin, PhD
Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas "Dr. Julio I Maiztegui" ANLIS Argentine
Gestionnaire des collections de mammifères et chercheur adjoint
Musée de zoologie, Université du Michigan (États-Unis)
Marcelo Weksler, PhD
Professeur Titulaire et Curador de Mamíferos
Museu Nacionale, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brésil)
Représentants étudiants
Lexi Frank – Université du Michigan
Heather Skeen – Musée Field